War memorial Nikolaikirchhof

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The war memorial from the Große Straße, in the background the Nikolaikirche
The inscription on the northern side of the monument
The inscription on the southern side of the monument

The Nikolaikirchhof war memorial in Jüterbog in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg is located south of the Nikolaikirche and north of Große Straße on the Nikolaikirchhof.

A war memorial was planned from 1921 onwards. In 1923, the war associations of Jüterbog, Damm and Neumarkt took over the planning of the memorial. It was to be built on the green area south of the Nikolaikirche. The funding was provided by ten donors, whose names are documented on the column bases. The architect Freydank and the government building officer Lehmann planned the monument in 1923. It was built by master bricklayer Wilhelm Pilz and the company Schaefer & Co. Since municipal facilities were not taken into account in the planning, no official representative of the city of Jüterbog took part in the inauguration on October 28, 1923. Military marches were also banned by the district administration.

On the base of the monument made of field stone with an oval ground plan there are eight stone columns without bases with a cube capital on top . There are clinkered arched arcades on the pillars. In the middle of the monument is a cenotaph with two inscriptions, the southern one reads: "The hero of the city of Jüterbog who fell in World War 1914-18". After the Second World War , the font was restored without the word " Helden ". The northern inscription was removed in 1945 by the communist city ​​administration newly established by the Soviet occupation forces and a new inscription was created. It reads: "The guilty and innocent victims of the Nazi dictatorship admonish us later generations".

There is a low hedge around the monument. From the southern side there is an entrance with four steps.

Web links

Commons : War memorial Nikolaikirchhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow-Fläming district , part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community. Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pp. 143–144

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Brandenburg monument list

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '26.6 "  N , 13 ° 5' 5.1"  E